X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ecd633cc40c6598dff83246b0dfaa9f8edb1a144;hp=6af0b96077167db8e42b6a2992732f78c3d16a44;hb=b6d7123594f6959ad0a6602b3952d9e6abe261a0;hpb=7eb4be765b131f00ac3da7ce8cfd3bc6759d26c5 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6af0b960..ecd633cc 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1064 2007/01/06 22:55:02 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1092 2007/02/25 00:45:56 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -45,6 +45,97 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names. Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions; it is not possible to add this information. +20070224 + + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases + where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was + ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch(). + + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl" + (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib. + + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h + + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h + + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options, + Menu_Options and Item_Options types. + + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229). + + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage. + +20070217 + + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav + Lichvar). + + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is + enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to + disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov, + Adam J Richter). + + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping + the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in + programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar). + + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help + (report by Michail Vidiassov). + + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, + which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224 + fixes. + + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking + shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov). + +20070210 + + add test/inchs.c, test_inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr(). + + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav + Lichvar). + + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by + Miroslav Lichvar). + + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned + for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong + regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023). + +20070203 + + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color) + from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window. + Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the + associated color overrides the field's background color (report by + Ricardo Cantu). + + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc. + + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted. + + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints + to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built. + + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding + no longer relies on it. + + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and + --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan). + + remove tack from ncurses tree. + +20070128 + + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option + (report by Rong-En Fan). + +20070127 + + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed + to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan). + + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after + it is removed from the ncurses tree. + + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines + (report by sci-fi@hush.ai). + + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making + its license consistent with ncurses. + + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in + the c++ binding for scanw() methods. + + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding. + +20070120 + + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from + term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency. + + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines. + + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav + Lichvar). + +20070113 + + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the + _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak). + + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the + ncurses build-tree. + + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions + in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar). + 20070106 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o @@ -88,7 +179,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter, i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen() (requested by Bryan Henderson). - + add configure option --with-valgrind (from vile). + + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile. + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use 'return' in preference to 'exit()'. @@ -1550,7 +1641,8 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 20031108 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially appearing in TERMCAP environment variable. - + fix some spelling in comments (reports by jmc, Jonathon Gray). + + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon + Gray). + update config.guess, config.sub 20031101 @@ -1840,7 +1932,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge). + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in (reported by Warren L Dodge ). - + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by jmc + + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre ). 20030503 @@ -4292,7 +4384,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. )). + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character - filename limitation (from Debian bug report by Josip Rodin + filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin ). + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console. + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4, @@ -5335,7 +5427,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information. 980321 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t - declared (from Adam J. Richter ) + declared (from Adam J Richter ) + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin). + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).